Counseling Concepts and Applications for Student Affairs Professionals (CNS 577)
Abstract
Parents experience many emotions when sending their students away for college. Many are excited for their child, some are sad, and a majority of these parents are worried. Parents now have to worry for a child that they are no longer in the same town as, whom they can no longer set a curfew and monitor when at home. Though people would like to believe that the university their child has chosen is safe the numbers tell a different story. According to Readers Digest (2008) of this country’s 6,000 colleges and universities there are 40,000 burglaries, 3,700 forcible sex offenses, 7,000 aggravated assaults and 48 murders reported a year.
In the last ten years universities are learning from past failings in safety and taking steps to be safer. Learning from these mistakes many universities have installed numerous policies and procedures to ensure safety. All students, university employees and guest deserve to feel that they live and work in a safe place. There should be no fear when leaving dorm rooms, walking to class, or studying in the library. But a university can only do so much. Students should be trained on campus safety and responsible decision making. Students only fear should be finals week, not their personal safety.
Disciplines
Student Counseling and Personnel Services
Recommended Citation
Joiner-Jones, Brittney and Wimsatt, Stephanie B., "Being Safe on the College Campus [brochure and video]" (2010). Counseling Concepts and Applications for Student Affairs Professionals (CNS 577). Paper 2.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/cns_apps/2
Campus Safety video
Comments
This video pamphlet collection, Understanding Issues Related to Today’s College Student, was compiled and produced by graduate students enrolled in CNS577 (Counseling Concepts and Applications for Student Affairs Professionals; Spring 2010). The videos are designed to bring awareness, propose implications, and offer helpful advice regarding a variety of issues that could impact the emotional, physical and mental well-being of today’s college student.
These videos cover an array of topics that will give you a sense of the many challenges facing life as a college student today. Our hope is that these videos can serve as a practical resource for college-bound high school students, current college students, parents and guardians, concerned friends, higher education professionals and others who desire information to provide awareness and offer assistance to those in need.
The project can also be accessed at http://edtech.wku.edu/~counsel/sa/cns577-videos.htm